Maria Chudnovsky, Sergey Norin, Paul D. Seymour, Jérémie Turcotte
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SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 845-856, March 2024. Abstract. We prove that every connected [math]-free graph has cop number at most two, solving a conjecture of Sivaraman. In order to do so, we first prove that every connected [math]-free graph [math] with independence number at least three contains a three-vertex induced path with vertices [math] in order, such that every neighbor of [math] is also adjacent to one of [math].
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